Hi I'm new to this forum, and I really hope that I have posted this in the right place. I have a problem with Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac. I'm running Mac OS X Lion 10.7.2. The problem is that my Mac is dropping the network connection when I'm booting a guest OS, I have only tried windows, so I don't know if this is specific to windows only. My problem is that I'm trying to install a server setup with two clients. A windows 2008 R2 server which will be the domain controller, and a Windows 7 32-bit and a Windows XP 32-bit as clients. Until now I have only installed and setup the 2008 R2, and windows 7. Now when I boot the server, it gets a IP-adress, but Windows 7 doesn't get one. Both systems are running with a bridged network connection to my default network card. I have a quite slow internet connection, so I don't update my applications often, that may be the reason to this problem, as I'm running Parallels Desktop 7 for Mac Build 7.0.14920, and the latest version availible is Build 7.0.15504. I have always cancelled the update, because I didn't have the time to wait for the update to be downloaded. The weird thing is that everything worked perfectly in Parallels Desktop 6 for Mac. Does anyone have a solution for my problem. If it means that I have to wait the about 12 hours it takes to download the update on my internet connection, then I just have to do that, and come back when it's done
Are you using DHCP server? Then renew IP address in your windows 7 go to cmd promt and type /renew Hope it will work in your windows server. __________________ SakibS
I have tried that, and I don't get internet access neither in XP, nor Windows Server or my host OS(Mac OS X Lion) None of my systems are running a DHCP Server. I think there must be something wrong, as it worked in Parallels 6. I have tried with Windows XP, and setting the network card to shared networking for the VM, but this also kills the internet connection. To get the connection back, I have to shut down all Virtual systems, and reboot Mac OS X.
It means to me that you probably assigned your network device straight to virtual machine, so your Mac looses it when VM starts up. Try to switch to Shared network and check, in case you have USB modem or similar USB device, go to Parallels Dsktop preferences --> USB and assign it to Mac. Also check Configuration --> Hardware --> Network if you are using Bridged, Default adapter (in case something particular is checked it can grab the whole connection to vm when started)
